释义 |
mammonite|ˈmæmənaɪt| [f. Mammon + -ite.] = mammonist.
1712E. Ward Misc. Writ. III. ii. 55 Your Hands are the Mammonites that convey unlawful Gain out of other Peoples Pockets into your own Till. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man III. 263 The gold failed, and the mammonites vanished. attrib.1850Kingsley Alt. Locke x. (1874) 84 It suits the venal Mammonite press..to jumble them together. 1855Tennyson Maud i. i. 12 When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee. 1861Macm. Mag. V. 120 [They] are said to be invaded by the mammonite spirit. |